Corinth Object: CP 1458
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   CP 1458
Title:   SLIP-PAINTED PLATE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   CP
Object Number:   1458
Description:   Plate with slightly flaring ring foot, flat resting and undersurface. Body rising at 30 degrees. Similar to C-1937-711.
Decoration:   In white slip, circle in center, with fringed motif, spirals branching off circle, all enclosed in triangle (?) Clear glaze on interior, making ground brick red; white slip on exterior.
Material:   Moderately fine red clay with scattered coarse white inclusions and rare fine back inclusions with rare large angular platy voids.
Munsell Color:   Between 5YR 6/8 (reddish yellow) and 2.5YR 5/8 (yellowish red)
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving ca. 1/8 foot, lower body.
Manufacture:   C80
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.032
Dimensions Restored:   Diam. 0.10 (foot)
Period:   Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Findspot Description:   Early Excavations, provenance unknown.
Bibliography:   Waage 1934, Hesperia, p. 132, fig. 5, 17
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Waage, Hesperia 3:2, 1934
Image: bw 3151
Image: digital 2014 1479
Basket: , Provenance unknown